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Chapter Page Brigadier General Tyler ............................................................................................37 Major Samuel Ringgold ............................................................................................39 Battle of Palo Alto .....................................................................................................42 The Death of Major Ringgold ...................................................................................42 Battle of Buena Vista ................................................................................................45 A Little More Grape Capt Bragg ..............................................................................45 Major Mordecai ........................................................................................................50 Napoleon gun ............................................................................................................51 10-pounder Parrott ....................................................................................................54 Civil War artillery implements .................................................................................55 Colonel Hunt .............................................................................................................60 Colonel Alexander ....................................................................................................62 General Pendleton .....................................................................................................63 Artillery park .............................................................................................................65 Battery C, 3d Regiment of Artillery .........................................................................66 The Coehorns—Cold Harbor ....................................................................................72 Major General Barry .................................................................................................77 10-inch disappearing gun ..........................................................................................80 The Gatling Guns, July 1, 1898 ................................................................................81 Battery M, 7th Regiment of Artillery .......................................................................86 Artillery in action at El Caney ..................................................................................89 Artillery in action at Coama ......................................................................................91 French 75-mm. gun ...................................................................................................97 3-inch field gun .......................................................................................................100 Captain Moore ........................................................................................................103 School of Fire for Field Artillery ............................................................................104 Camp telephone set .................................................................................................109 Colonel Baker .........................................................................................................112 French 155-mm. Schneider howitzer ......................................................................113 Battery C, 6th Field Artillery ..................................................................................114 General Snow ..........................................................................................................117 General Westervelt ..................................................................................................127 Tractor hauling a 4.7-inch gun ................................................................................134 Experimental self-propelled gun .............................................................................135 Confederate veterans of the Richmond Howitzers .................................................137 Superior Board members ........................................................................................141 General McNair ......................................................................................................146 General Danford ......................................................................................................147 Firing table and case ...............................................................................................153 L–4 from the 29th Infantry Division Artillery ........................................................161 Airborne troops loading a 75-mm. pack howitzer ..................................................165 Self-propelled 105-mm. howitzer (“Priest”) ...........................................................166 155-mm. gun (“Long Tom”) ...................................................................................172 240-mm. howitzer ...................................................................................................173 Tank destroyer ........................................................................................................174 Firing 4.5-inch rockets ............................................................................................175 xvi
Chapter xvii Page Sound-ranging equipment .......................................................................................181 Artillery observation post .......................................................................................183 Forward observers in Korea ....................................................................................190 155-mm. howitzer crew and self-propelled 155-mm. gun crew .............................199 8-inch howitzer in action ........................................................................................202 937th Field Artillery Battalion firing 155-mm. guns ..............................................204 Wernher von Braun .................................................................................................211 Honest John rocket ..................................................................................................213 Corporal missile ......................................................................................................215 Redstone missile .....................................................................................................217 Hoisting Explorer I atop Jupiter-C ..........................................................................219 Jupiter-C blasting off, 31 January 1958 ..................................................................220 Lacrosse missile ......................................................................................................223 Sergeant missile ......................................................................................................227 Little John rocket ....................................................................................................229 Pershing missile ......................................................................................................231 Lance missile ..........................................................................................................235 Pershing II missile ...................................................................................................238 280-mm. gun firing the first atomic artillery shell ..................................................244 M109 self-propelled 155-mm. howitzer .................................................................262 M18 field artillery digital automatic computer .......................................................263 UH–1D Iroquois in flight ........................................................................................265 CH–54 Tarhe lifting a 155-mm. howitzer ...............................................................271 8-inch howitzer .......................................................................................................273 175-mm. gun ...........................................................................................................274 CH–47 Chinook transporting the M102 105-mm. howitzer ...................................277 UH–1B Iroquois firing 2.75-inch rockets ...............................................................277 105-mm. howitzer ...................................................................................................278 Riverine battery position .........................................................................................280 Copperhead round ...................................................................................................287 Multiple-launch rocket system ................................................................................292 Tactical fire direction system ..................................................................................298 Bradley fire support team vehicle ...........................................................................301 M110A2 8-inch howitzer ........................................................................................302 155-mm. howitzers during Operation De s e r t sh i e l D .............................................312 Steel Rain ................................................................................................................313 Army tactical missile system ..................................................................................314 M119 105-mm. howitzer ........................................................................................315 M109A6 self-propelled 155-mm. howitzer (Paladin) .............................................321 Charts No. 1. Division Artillery Organization, 1948 ..............................................................191
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CHAPTER 4 Diverging Missions Betwee
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CHAPTER 7 World War II Developments
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CHAPTER 9 The Nuclear Arena The Kor
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